Category: House Design

Patricia Urquiola named interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023

Spanish architect and designer Patricia Urquiola has been named interior designer of the year at the Dezeen Awards 2023 ceremony.

The Designers of the Year category rewards the best emerging and established talent across architecture, interiors and design. It recognizes creatives whose innovative work has made a notable impact on the industry.

Urquiola was awarded the prize at the Dezeen Awards 2023 party last week, which was hosted in partnership with Bentley.

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Patricia Urquiola was named interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023

Born in Oviedo, Spain,

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10 Home Design Trends Your Clients Will Love in 2024

Stylish storage, bolder patterns and textures and colors beyond the whites and grays are expected to shake up home design in 2024. Houzz, a home renovation and design platform, weighs in with its predictions for the home trends gaining traction. Here’s Houzz’s list of what to watch.

Blending the Backsplashes

Backsplashes are becoming a bigger kitchen statement and stretching to new heights. In making the backsplash more of a focal point, designers are installing a slab of stone or quartz behind the range or countertop while keeping the surrounding backsplash in tile. The slab backsplash will usually match the kitchen

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Design news: how to live on water, Issey Miyake and the best of the biennales | Design

Discover the highlights of the upcoming London Design Biennale and a celebration marking 30 years of the Pleats Please clothes line. We also celebrate the joys of living on the waves in this month’s design news. For more stories on architecture, sustainable living and the creative industries, sign up for the monthly Design Review newsletter here.

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London Design Biennale highlights

Tapestry in progress, by the Keiskamma Trust, Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa from Eureka! at LDB Photograph: London Design Biennale

Back for a fourth time, the London Design Biennale at Somerset House will include exhibitions from five continents in

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Chesil Cliff House for sale: The fall and fall of Grand Designs’ saddest home – and the marriage it helped end

When Edward and Hazel Short put their life savings into building their fantasy home on the coast, they hope it will change their lives for the better and give their two children a fabulous childhood.

Instead, more than 10 years on the luxury house is listed for sale at knockdown price, the couple’s marriage is over and millionaire Mr Short is still paying off some of the money he borrowed for the ambitious building project.

It was

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Students design & build affordable, energy-efficient home | UCR News

A group of UC Riverside mechanical engineering undergrads started a year and a half ago with just a grant application and an idea.

None of them had architectural or building construction experience. Yet they managed to obtain funding and design and build from the ground up a showcase house that will use solar electricity so wisely it doesn’t need to be connected to the grid.

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The floor plan of an eco-friendly house built by UCR undergrads. UCR graphic by Kristen Danforth

Fresh off exhibiting a section of the house at a home design show in Orange County, the students were

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JM Architecture presents a custom-designed one-story prefabricated house shaped like a pinwheel

Luino, Italy

Jacopo Mascheroni of JM Architecture’s Pinwheel House is a pavilion-like, wooden house nestled in a glade of the oak tree forests typical of the lake region bordering Switzerland.

Pinwheel House by JM Architecture

A project shaped by the boundaries and topography of a small sloping plot, where the suitable buildable area corresponds to a natural terrace in the narrowest portion of the site.

The design followed the building setbacks’ constraints and the need for a living area facing the lake valley.

With one side parallel to the contour lines of the slope, and two sides aligned with the back lines, the simple geometry

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The Owyang House – Global Design News

San Jose, California, USA

The Owyang House by Swatt Miers Architects
Category: Private Homes
Year: 2022
Architects: Swatt Miers Architects
Lead Architects: Robert Swatt
Design Team: Swatt Miers Architects; RobertSwatt FAIA, Angie Gormas
Client: King and Vivian Owyang
Contractor: Denis Matson General Contractor
Photographers: Tim Griffith, Tim Griffith Photography

The Owyang House is a new two-story 6,000 square foot home in Atherton, California, that replaces a 2,700 square foot, one-story 1950’s post and beam structure that suffered from low ceilings (7′- 3” at bottom of beams) and dark, claustrophobic interior spaces. The new home features exciting interior spaces, an abundance of natural light throughout, and strong indoor

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Small Homes: Top 5 Floor Plans & Designs for Small Houses

According to ABS figures, the average size of new houses built in Australia in 2018/19 was 228.8 sqm. By global standards, this is high. While exact figures are difficult to come by and vary according to source, it puts us right at the top of global house sizes. We generally come in at number one or number two behind the US

In comparison, in New Zealand the average new house size for the same period was just 164.4sqm, the UK’s average was 1590sqm, and in Spain it was 1314sqm.

While high, Australia’s figure of 222.8 sqm was a drop from

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